{"id":1965,"date":"2013-05-11T07:40:31","date_gmt":"2013-05-11T07:40:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/?p=1965"},"modified":"2013-05-11T07:40:31","modified_gmt":"2013-05-11T07:40:31","slug":"charmed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/?p=1965","title":{"rendered":"Charmed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just wanted to document my previous claim regarding a charm of goldfinches &#8211; one of the many, many, glorious and wonderful things about the world of birds is the impressive <a title=\"check them out here\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_collective_nouns\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">list of collective nouns<\/a> it has garnered.<\/p>\n<p>I have noticed that many birds, face on, look rather aggressive, and the wee chap here is no exception.\u00a0 The group, trio or <span style=\"color: #ff1493;\">charm<\/span> are feeding in the safe house, it&#8217;s not the jail.\u00a0 Woodpigeons parade up and down outside it, trying to stick their heads in, to little avail.<\/p>\n\n<p>I will be turning off the comment option on this shortly (oh, all right, Paul will be doing this and I will be supplying cups of tea) because in the past few weeks the site has been receiving an inordinate amount of dribbly spam, and while it does no harm, it&#8217;s annoying having to clear down the emails from my inbox which say\u00a0 &#8220;Please moderate this piece of twaddle from someone you don&#8217;t know&#8221;.\u00a0 I think <em>Team Discovery<\/em> Carol was the last person to comment anyway, and that was possibly last decade.\u00a0\u00a0 But you can still contact me by phone, text, email, letter, drop by (check we&#8217;re in first), Twitter or PM me on FB as the young people say.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just wanted to document my previous claim regarding a charm of goldfinches &#8211; one of the many, many, glorious and wonderful things about the world of birds is the impressive list of collective nouns it has garnered. I have noticed that many birds, face on, look rather aggressive, and the wee chap here is no [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,29,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds-wildlife","category-family","category-kirsty"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1965\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}